Random Things

Why is Anthrocon taking so long to open up hotel reservations? This is why:

http://community.livejournal.com/anthrocon/368427.html

If anyone has input for the discussion at hand, please leave it on that LJ entry.


Also, I just found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTRS

Originally planned to span a frequency range of 2 megahertz to 2 gigahertz, JTRS has been expanded to frequencies above 2 GHz to satisfy space communications requirements.

Basically, it's a Software-defined Radio that can operate on any of those frequencies, because the modulation/demodulation is all done in software. That's just awesome.